Joint op fellies in carriage-wheels



GIBSON, OF CHELSEA, MASSACHUSETTS.

JOINT OF FELLIES IN CARRIAGE-WHEELS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 31,309, dated February 5, 1861.

ib all whom t may concern: and the tire, B. A screw bolt, o, should be Be it. known that I, FREDERIC M. GisoN, passed down through the tongue, b, and the ot Chelsea, in the county ot Suttolk and telly. Another such bolt, d, should also be 45 State ot lvlassachusetts,have invented anew passed down through the telly and the and usetul 'or Improved Carriage- Fellysocket piece D, and so as to be on one side Joint Supporter; and I do hereby declare ot the telly joint, e, while the bolt, c, is on j. the same to be tully described in the tollowthe opposite side thereot. By such a coning specification and illustrated in the accomstruction and application ot the telly joint 50 panying drawings, ot which supporter, the tongue, not only operates to Figure 1, is a perspective view ot it. Fig. prevent the inward bending ot the tire and 2, a side view; and Fig. 3, a longitudinal telly at the joint ot the latter, but with the i section ot it as applied to the joint and spoke socket D and the bolts o, CZ, is caused to o mortise ot a telly. hold the two parts ot the telly in close con- 55 The common telly joint connection as nection or to prevent them trom separating l5 usually made consists simply ot a metallic 'or being drawn out ot the socket. Thus, collar within which the two ends ot the should the tire get ott the wheel while the telly are inserted. It is generally arranged latter may be running, my improved joint midway between two adjacent spokes. The supporter will prevent the telly trom being 60 objection to it, is, that it renders the wheel drawn out ot the socket, D, and thus save liable to a change in torni which, while the the wheel trom breakage and the bad conwheel may be in use will, sooner or later, be sequences that might tollow. As the end j occasioned by blows on the tire, at or near ot a` spoke will abut against the tongue,

the junction ot the two ends ot the telly, the latter and ot course the socket, D, will 65 that is, the telly and the tire become bent be directly supported by the spoke. Conf inward as shown at, (L, in Fig. wherein, A, sequently, under such circumstances, there denotes the telly; B, the tire; C, l', two ot can be no bending inward ot the telly and the spokes, and, e, the joint supporter or tire, such as .is exhibited at, a, in Fig. 4. i connection ot a carriage wheel. I claimw- 70 The object ot my invention or improve- 1. The improved telly joint supporter as ment is to prevent this breaking or bending constructed with the tongue or projection, b, down ot the wheel telly, when its ends are arranged with respect to the socket piece, D, j jointed, and tor this purpose, I construct substantially as specified. the joint connection, D, with a-tongue or 2. The above specitied arrangement and 75 j branch, ZJ, extending trom it as shown in application ot the telly supporter, D, its i Figs. l, 2 and I also so arrange the telly tongue, Z), a spoke, C the telly, A, its joint, joint, c, that when the supporter, D, is placed c, and the tire B, the whole being to operate j thereont or 1so las tlo encompass1 th/same, it in manner and tor the objects asfspeciied. r may no on j ne c ose to a sJo ie as re 1 j, resented iniIligs. 2, and 31, but have titte v Ii' M' GIBL'SOB 40 tongue-or part, lapping over the spoke lVitnesses:

mortise and tenon and the outer periphery K. I-I. EDDY, ot the telly and extending between the latter F. I). H ALD, Jr. 

